diff --git a/package-translations.changes b/package-translations.changes
index 7795cc5..e251a25 100644
--- a/package-translations.changes
+++ b/package-translations.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri May 28 15:16:22 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- make sure we create utf-8 output
+- update translations
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 28 09:28:12 UTC 2009 - coolo@novell.com
 
diff --git a/package-translations.spec b/package-translations.spec
index 19cf1ad..502216c 100644
--- a/package-translations.spec
+++ b/package-translations.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package package-translations (Version 1.0)
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2009 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2010 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
 
 Name:           package-translations
 Version:        1.0
-Release:        2
+Release:        3
 Summary:        Summary and Descriptions Translations
-License:        BSD 3-clause (or similar)
+License:        BSD3c(or similar)
 Group:          System/GUI/Other
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 AutoReqProv:    on
diff --git a/package-translations.tar.bz2 b/package-translations.tar.bz2
index 1ef8895..5f247d0 100644
--- a/package-translations.tar.bz2
+++ b/package-translations.tar.bz2
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:aa32201e82da95ee9bc0017556cd603e70fb332be37f7937505317f5c5e2f509
-size 2164711
+oid sha256:3c856577a8a75d3480bfbe23b83f0a695217cd1eea95a1fb601d7543339ae612
+size 115
diff --git a/translate_packages.pl b/translate_packages.pl
index edd3f49..63c6b6f 100644
--- a/translate_packages.pl
+++ b/translate_packages.pl
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@
 use Locale::gettext;
 use POSIX;     # Needed for setlocale()
 
-setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "en_US");
+$ENV{'LC_ALL'} = 'en_US.UTF-8';
+setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "en_US.UTF-8");
+setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8");
+
 textdomain("package-translations-" . $ARGV[0]);
 
 my $indesc = 0;